Assume you are interested only in them perl programs and they are nicely named with .pl extension<br><br>If names is not consistent, 'file' can be used to generate the set to compare, as perl scripts is "perl script text executable" per 'file'.<br>
<br>Two-step comparison<br><ul><li>cd dir1 && for i in `find . -type f -name "*.pl"`; do ---- $i ----; diff $i dir2/$i; done</li><li>cd dir2 && for i in `find . -type f -name "*.pl"`; do ---- $i ----; diff $i dir1/$i; done</li>
</ul><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Chris Fowler <<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Are there any good tools to do a diff on two directory trees? I'm doing<br>
an upgrade and there are many perl programs spread throughout and I want<br>
to see the differences. I've used the diff program before but these<br>
trees are big and there will be a lot of noise. There are binary files<br>
as well as text files.<br>
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